Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he will address the nation about the path forward for his campaign Friday in Arizona, amid advanced discussions with Donald Trump and his campaign team about dropping out of the race and endorsing the Republican nominee, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations.
Former President Barack Obama returned to his adopted hometown to keynote the second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, offering an aspirational goal for the county to elect Kamala Harris and reject “four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos” if Donald Trump is returned to the White House.
The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention featured many attacks on former president Donald Trump, some of which quoted him out of context. Here’s a roundup of a dozen claims that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made.
CHICAGO – On New Year's Eve in 2007, Kamala Harris, then the district attorney of San Francisco, prepared to spend the holiday more than 1,000 miles away from her native California. She had flown to Iowa for the first time, touching down in Des Moines during one of the wettest winters on record.
SEATTLE — Patti Gorman has been enthralled by politics since she was a child. The fascination began when her parents took her with them to the ballot boxes. Her passion since has been to get young people involved with voting, a pressing issue as the 2024 presidential election approaches. Gorman, 76, does her part by often dressing up as the Statue of Liberty at Seattle Central College. The ...
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, on Friday defended his past unsubstantiated claims about immigration in which he suggested that early waves of Italian, Irish and German immigration led to higher crime and interethnic conflict, by citing the movie "Gangs of New York."
Jeison Gabriel España left home July 28 to vote for the first -- and last -- time in his brief life. A day after casting his ballot in a presidential election that had united millions of Venezuelans in a call for change, España, 18, was shot and killed in the streets.
As Vice President Kamala Harris' new economic proposals dominated Sunday morning’s political shows, allies touted her ideas to address food and housing costs as beneficial to middle-class Americans, while critics slammed her plan as unworkable and unrealistic.
What a difference a month can make. A very different Democratic Party will be gathering in Chicago for its four-day national convention beginning Monday. The substitution of Kamala Harris for Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket has scrambled the presidential race.
Some of the internet’s most influential far-right figures are turning against former president Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening a digital “war” against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies that could complicate the party’s calls for unity in the final weeks of the presidential race.
With the Democratic National Convention occupying much of the available news space for the next four days, anyone paying attention is bound to hear a proclamation that this November’s election is the most important in history.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, back home in Nebraska on Saturday, delivered his usual appeals to joy and freedom, along with some jabs at former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. But this time, he added a flex of his Nebraska roots and his knowledge of the state's culture.
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in protests across their country and in cities around the world, demanding that authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost.
President Joe Biden's goodbye to half a century in national politics will begin in earnest Monday. When he takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that evening, Biden will establish his time in office as the foundation for the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, the new Democratic nominee.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday described the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, as being "much better" than the Medal of Honor, because service members who receive the nation's highest military honor are often severely wounded or dead.
It was around 11 p.m. on the second night of the 1984 Democratic National Convention when the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped on the stage inside San Francisco’s Moscone Center and punctuated his place in American history.
Former president Donald Trump is continuing to make millions off his properties, book royalties and licensing deals while maintaining large liabilities stemming from costly court judgments, according to his latest financial disclosure.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled an aggressively populist economic agenda, providing the most detailed vision yet of her governing priorities since becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Last year, the Stevens County commissioners proposed two ballot measures to raise sales tax to pay for a new jail. The voter pamphlet included an argument in favor written by the sheriff and two other citizens.
Toward the end of a meandering news conference, former President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he was "entitled" to continue his barrage of personal attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, even as Republican allies are pushing him to shift his tone and emphasize policy issues.
